This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a diversity of experiences of excess. Comprising a variety of perspectives, this book offers unique insights into how politics and literature have been shaped by states of intoxication.
This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a diversity of experiences of excess. Comprising a variety of perspectives, this book offers unique insights into how politics and literature have been shaped by states of intoxication.
Eugene Brennan, Université Paris 13, France Alessandro Cabiati, University of Edinburgh, UK Christopher Collier, University of Essex, UK Joanna Figiel, City University London, UK Anne-Lucile Gérardot, University of Reims, France Alastair Hemmens, Cardiff University, UK Andrew Hussey, University of London, UK Mike Jay, independent scholar, UK Joe Kennedy, University of Sussex, UK Benjamin Noys, University of Chichester, UK Matthieu Perrot, University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France Joshua Rivas, Princeton University, USA Russell Williams, American University of Paris, France
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword: the Art of Hard Drugs; Andrew Hussey Acknowledgements Note on Contributors Introduction; Eugene Brennan and Russell Williams PART I: CULTURAL HISTORIES OF INTOXICATION 1. Writing and Intoxication: Drunken Philosophers, Crack Addicts and the Perpetual Present; Russell Williams 2. The Green Jam of 'Doctor X'. Science and Literature at the Club des Hashischins; Mike Jay PART II: POETIC INTOXICATIONS 3. Mourning and Mania: Visions of Intoxication and Death in the Poetry of Georges Bataille; Eugene Brennan 4. 'Riding the Lines'. The Poetics of the 'Chevauchements' in Henri Michaux's Drug Experiments; Mathieu Perrot 5. Fabulous Operas, Rock'n'Roll Shows: The Intoxication and Poetic Experimentation of Arthur Rimbaud and Jim Morrison; Alessandro Cabiati PART III: DIPSOMANIACAL NOVELISTS 6. Tipsiness and 'the Reigning Stupefaction' in the British Fiction of the Late 1940s; Joe Kennedy 7. 'Drink, She Said': Around the World of Durassian Alcohol; Anne-Lucille Gérardot PART IV: POLITICAL AND THEORETICAL CRITIQUES OF INTOXICATION 8. Intoxication and Toxicity in a 'Pharmacopornographic Era': Beatriz Preciado's ; Joshua Rivas 9. A Systemised Derangement of the Senses: The Situationist International and the Biopolitics of Dérive; Christopher Collier and Joanna Figiel 10. 'Beau comme le tremblement des mains dans l'alcoolisme': A Cavalier History of Drugs and Intoxication in the Situationist International; Alastair Hemmens 11. Intoxication and Acceleration: The Politics of Immanence; Benjamin Noys Selected bibliography Index
Foreword: the Art of Hard Drugs; Andrew Hussey Acknowledgements Note on Contributors Introduction; Eugene Brennan and Russell Williams PART I: CULTURAL HISTORIES OF INTOXICATION 1. Writing and Intoxication: Drunken Philosophers, Crack Addicts and the Perpetual Present; Russell Williams 2. The Green Jam of 'Doctor X'. Science and Literature at the Club des Hashischins; Mike Jay PART II: POETIC INTOXICATIONS 3. Mourning and Mania: Visions of Intoxication and Death in the Poetry of Georges Bataille; Eugene Brennan 4. 'Riding the Lines'. The Poetics of the 'Chevauchements' in Henri Michaux's Drug Experiments; Mathieu Perrot 5. Fabulous Operas, Rock'n'Roll Shows: The Intoxication and Poetic Experimentation of Arthur Rimbaud and Jim Morrison; Alessandro Cabiati PART III: DIPSOMANIACAL NOVELISTS 6. Tipsiness and 'the Reigning Stupefaction' in the British Fiction of the Late 1940s; Joe Kennedy 7. 'Drink, She Said': Around the World of Durassian Alcohol; Anne-Lucille Gérardot PART IV: POLITICAL AND THEORETICAL CRITIQUES OF INTOXICATION 8. Intoxication and Toxicity in a 'Pharmacopornographic Era': Beatriz Preciado's ; Joshua Rivas 9. A Systemised Derangement of the Senses: The Situationist International and the Biopolitics of Dérive; Christopher Collier and Joanna Figiel 10. 'Beau comme le tremblement des mains dans l'alcoolisme': A Cavalier History of Drugs and Intoxication in the Situationist International; Alastair Hemmens 11. Intoxication and Acceleration: The Politics of Immanence; Benjamin Noys Selected bibliography Index
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